SQLSecurityRealm/SQLLoginModule needs overhaul
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Key: GERONIMO-409
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-409
Project: Apache Geronimo
Type: Bug
Components: security
Versions: 1.0-M2
Reporter: Aaron Mulder
The SQLSecurityRealm and SQLLoginModule do not scale. In particular, they load
all users and all groups in the security realm once when the realm is started,
and again for every login request. Imagine a database of thousands of
users/groups.
There should instead be required SQL queries to load a single password given a
username, and to load a list of groups for a single user given a username.
Then there can be optional SQL queries to load a list of all users or to load a
list of all groups, though we still shouldn't care who the group members are.
Also, it appears that the digesting features provided by
SQLSecurityRealmPasswordDigested are never invoked, so that class has no
effect. It seems like the best way to implement digesting would be to make the
basic SQLLoginModule take a digest algorithm argument. If present, the
SQLLoginModule could instantiate and use a digester on the incoming password
(and if not, not). Then we don't need any extra class for it, and you could
enable digesting simply by adding a login module configuration option.
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